EIRE: Dev Up

Placing the stamp of approval on his recently negotiated Anglo-Irish agreement, the voters of Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation...

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